The criminals operated in the City of Buenos Aires and the suburbs. This Saturday they pretended to be working on a corner in Mataderos when the police stopped them.
June 16, 2024, 08:10 a.m.
The gang pretended to work as a telephone operations company. (Photo: GCBA press).
A cable theft gang that pretended to work for a telephone company fell this Saturday night when the Buenos Aires City Police arrested them while they were taking 100 meters of cable from a sewer in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Mataderos.
The intense operation took place at the intersection between the streets Pilar and Bragado, when a patrolman carrying out routine tasks came across a large group of alleged workers who were loading underground cables aboard a Mercedes Benz truck. The route was about one hundred meters and the alleged workers took the cables out of the underground chamber to put them in the truck.
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The police quickly confirmed that it was not a company and the criminals They tried to escape aboard four different vehicles. However, the troops blocked their path and detained a Volkswagen Amaroka Toyota Hilux and a Renault Sandero.
In that first operation they were captured seven men and one woman, but the investigation continued and the chase continued through the City of Buenos Aires. The rest of the gang – five men who posed as workers – fled aboard a Volkswagen Gol. Finally fThey were caught by officers from Neighborhood Police Station 9A, in Directory and Larrazabal.
The case fell to Federal Court Number 1, headed by Dr. María Servini, who continued the investigation and ordered a total of ten raids, where two more criminals were arrested.
In total, the band was made up of fourteen men and one woman. At the time of arrest, everyone showed apocryphal identifications of a telephone service provider company.
The gang was made up of 14 men and one woman who pretended to be a telephone company. (Photo: GCBA Press).
A few hours later, it was determined that it was a criminal gang from the southern area of Greater Buenos Aires, dedicated to the systematic theft of wiring, which operated both in the City of Buenos Aires and in the suburbs. The arrested woman, 26 years old, had a history of robbery.
The four vehicles mentioned above and the Mercedes Benz truck used to move the cables were seized, as well as cutting tools, a large quantity of cables, uniforms and work clothes.
“Committing crimes in the City begins to have consequences and that is a paradigm shift. Today the City police arrested a gang of cable stealers in Mataderos and that is a consequence of continuing to work firmly and decisively,” said the Head of Government, Jorge Macri, on his personal X account (exTwitter).
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In that same sense, the Minister of City Security, Waldo Wolff, stated: “The modality does not matter, it matters that the Police patrol the street day and night, we investigate criminals, we are going to look for them and we arrest them.. In the City, whoever steals goes to prison.”
For his part, the Secretary of Security, Diego Kravetz, highlighted “the work, vocation and attention of our officers who They did not overlook what this gang of criminals was doing, personified as workers, and they acted quickly. This is the City Police, acting and arresting anyone who does not comply with the law.”
